Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Preventing Exposure
In addition to proper handwashing, personal protective equipment (PPE) also plays an important role in preventing exposure to potentially infectious materials.
Contact Possible?
You must wear gloves when contact with blood or other potentially infectious material is even remotely possible.
Splash or Spray?
In situations where potentially infectious material is likely to splash or spray, you should wear a gown or apron to protect your skin and clothes.
You should also wear a mask with eye protection to protect your eyes, nose, and mouth.
PPE Placement Activity
Read the following situations and choose the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). Although these situations represent "typical" encounters you might experience in a school, remember to use good judgment should you encounter any situation involving blood or other potentially infectious material on the job. Situations may require multiple PPEs.
A student trips in the hallway and hits her nose against the wall. The student's nose starts to bleed.
Feedback
A mask is not required when addressing a common nosebleed.
Most common nosebleeds only require wearing gloves.
Goggles are not usually required when addressing a common nosebleed.
You will not need to ward boots when addressing a common nosebleed.
An apron is not required when dealing with a common nosebleed.
On the way to school, a student falls off his bicycle and skids a few feet on his hands and knees on the side of the road. Lots of small pebbles and dirt are embedded in the student's wounds. As part of the treatment, you will have to irrigate the student's wounds with water and clean them thoroughly.
Feedback
Because of the possibility of potentially infectious material splashing when you irrigate and clean the wound, you should wear a mask.
Because of the possibility of potentially infectious material splashing when you irrigate and clean the wound, you should wear gloves.
Because of the possibility of potentially infectious material splashing when you irrigate and clean the wound, you should wear goggles.
Boots are not required when cleaning a and irrigating a small wound.
Because of the possibility of potentially infectious material splashing when you irrigate and clean the wound, you should wear an apron.
A glass bottle falls and breaks in the cafeteria, a student cuts one of her fingers trying to pick up one of the larger pieces of glass.
Feedback
A mask is usually required when addressing small cuts and scrapes.
Gloves are usually a good idea for small cuts and scrapes.
Goggles are usually a good idea when addressing small cuts and scrapes.
Boots are not required when addressing small cuts and scrapes.
An apron is not required when addressing small cuts and scrapes.
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